Consul Michael Williams was enjoying himself, he didn't get the opportunity to get out of the country that much, something he'd been wanting to correct. To visit Nya Aland was a great thing and an interesting moment he knew a little about the host nation and their Viking heritage, he remembered the debates, well they hadn't really been debates more rubber stamps in truth, back in the Senate over the foreign aid funding into Uppsalla. Still he felt quite comfortable and the weather wasn't that bad either, well not for the Achkaerinese at least they were used to extremes being from the 'frozen north' as they joked about it. Michael was accompanied by his wife
Siobhan, the minister for agriculture and the environment, and the Minister of Science and Technology
Kathryn Deed, and it was Kathryn who was probably the most settled of this trio as she'd been present at earlier attempts to do something like this.
The idea of scientific collaboration and cooperation in a multitude of fields had attracted attention across the various Achkaerinese companies and organisations that operated in that field, from the Achkaerin Space Agency there was the director of flight operations
Nicola Fernley, then there were the business representatives from some of Achkaerin's major companies as one would expect Riviere Corporation was in the mix with their CEO
Catriona Rowan, Futurist Industries was there with their boss
Elecktra Hope. Flanking the two businesswomen were
Matthew McKinlay and
Sir Darren Eagle which with the addition of
Mark Sherman rounded out the major Achkaerinese industries that were curious about the meeting.
Last but not least there was the presence of CORAL, the Centre of Oceanic Research And Learning, they were represented by their senior officer as it were
Tim McKay and for their cadet program his daughter
Anna.
"Did we have to bring an army with us?" Siobhan asked looking at Michael
"Were you going to try and stop them?" Michael asked "They're all geeks this is their thing."
"Yeah but I could have done without Mark Sherman and Elecktra Hope's friendly niggling about the Avalon Motor Show." Siobhan said
"Kathryn where do we go?" Michael asked
"I'm saying over there." Kathryn said
It was the three government officials that made their way over to the Head Gothi
"Your Holiness it is an honour to meet you." Michael said "I'm Michael Williams Consul of the Achkaerin Senate, may I introduce my wife and minister of agriculture and the environment Siobhan and our minister of science and technology Kathryn Deed who is I believe familiar with what you're proposing."
"Great to be back." Kathryn said "And our apologies but we ended up being followed by a bit of a crowd."